Touch Keyboard in Windows 11 number pad version removed with recent update?

Glad it worked. Mine actually just broke with a new update. I wiped and did a fresh install of the OS and its still the same issue so it doenst seem like anything else caused the new problems I've had. I've been trying to find a better way to get the old keyboard back. I've tried the other emulators but they dont seem to function 100% of the time. This is messy but i have been able to return the old keyboard back with limitations. The toggle in the system tray icons is broken and the only way to call the keyboard is to create a shortcut to TabTip.exe. I also had to rename the new input host file to disable the new keyboard from showing (which probably breaks other things).

Here is my setup:

• I'm on build 22621.1413
• Still use the DisableNewKeyboardExperience with a value of 1
• Rename the TextInputHost.exe file. I just added .bak to the end of it in case i need to restore it. (I ended up booting into my linux os to modify this file since you cant kill the service very easily without it restarting right away. I dont know of a great way to do this outside of booting another OS to modify the file name. This may be an issue for those running on a surface. I dont have one so i'm not sure what you can/cant do.
  • C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TextInputHost.exe
• Create a shortcut to C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip.exe. I placed one on the taskbar for easy access.
• Change the new search box to "Search icon and label" or "Search box". Right click/tap and hold on the taskbar and open taskbar settings and it should be the top item. Once you disable the new keyboard it will not allow you to call the old keyboard while in the start menu. This allows you to search with the keyboard to accomplish mostly the same tasks. You can still browse the start menu without a keyboard.
• I've also played around with these Invoke regedits but they dont seem to make a difference. I enabled both with a value of 1.
  • [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7]
    • "DisableNewKeyboardExperience"=dword:00000001
    • "EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke"=dword:00000001
    • "TouchKeyboardTapInvoke"=dword:00000001

I'm using my surface go 2 to enter invoice quantities on the go. (ie inside of stores) . After finding this thread, I found numpad emulators. I'm using this one and I like it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpad-emulator/

Hi PhillipSheppard,

Thank you for the response and I'm sorry to hear that the On-Screen Keyboard won't help and replace what was taken out from the Touch Keyboard which was useful on your end and your company. For this case, I would suggest submitting a feedback to Microsoft through the Feedback Hub app to let our engineers and developers know about the need for the feature. This will also helps us to improve and do better on our products. Please see: Send feedback to Microsoft with the Feedback Hub app.

With the Touch keyboard open you can also get to this by selecting Give Feedback from the settings menu.

Again, apologies for the inconvenience this has caused you and your colleagues.

King regards,

Marrion

Hello Phillip,

I think I can help you with your problem. In order to see the numbers on the touch keyboard for the surface tablet you simply have to open it to type something click on the top left the keyboard setting and then click the 4th setting which shows a black keyboard. This should show you all the numbers at the top of the keyboard.

If you have any questions you can ask me. I hope this helped!

Actually the touch numpad still exist, just that it'll only appear when typing passwords, debit credits or typing bank account number during bank transfer, where only numbers were allowed.

Microsoft, pls pls, bring back the touch numpad option, it is very important to surface and other windows tablet user~🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Which web page is using this number pad? Which OS version number do you have? Probably somewhere deep inside Windows Number pad is, but is not visible outside for developers and this could be some hack how to enable it.